The Wedding Video. Image shows from L to R: Raif (Rufus Hound), Tim (Robert Webb), Reverend Dobbs (Angus Barnett), Saskia (Lucy Punch). Copyright: Timeless Films

Key details

Genre
Film
Released
2012
Stars
Lucy Punch, Robert Webb, Rufus Hound, Miriam Margolyes, Harriet Walter, Michelle Gomez, Alexis Zegerman, Cara Horgan and more
Writer
Tim Firth
Director
Nigel Cole
Producers
James Gay-Rees, Nigel Green and Ralph Kamp
Company

From the writer and director of Calendar Girls, The Wedding Video is a comedy set in the cut throat world of English society weddings.

Raif (Rufus Hound) is a shambolic oaf with a unique sense of humour who is suddenly asked to be his brother's best man. His present to the happy couple, he decides, will be a video of their wedding. He returns from abroad to meet brother Tim (Robert Webb) for the first time in years and his fiancée Saskia (Lucy Punch).

His film is our film - the final edited version with music, live action, interviews, the works. It's the wedding equivalent of Spinal Tap. And thank god Raif caught it all on film, because no-one would have believed it otherwise. Amidst the chaos of planning their big day and fending off unwanted help the couple begin to wonder 'who's wedding is it anyway?'

To Raif's surprise, he finds his once-bohemian brother has undergone a total change of character and is marrying into the most socially aspirant of families; Saskia's grandmother, Patricia would give Hyacinth Bucket a run for her money and mum Alex has successfully married and settled into life in the 'Cheshire Set' - the English 'Beverley Hills'.

As Alex tries to compete in this world of perfectly manicured talons and so win the approval of her snobby mother, Raif starts to uncover the sheer scale of the wedding industry in the 21st Century from personalised ring pillows to the most bizarre means of getting to the church on time.

As pressure mounts and the big day approaches Bride, Groom and Best Man have to face the fact that the sun is rising on the most outlandish, garish wedding in Cheshire history. And they're the stars...

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Additional details

UK certificate
15
Duration
94 minutes
UK release
Friday 17th August 2012
Distributors

Entertainment Films

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Studio
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Most recent repeats
  • Saturday 6th April 2019 at 11:45pm on BBC1
  • Sunday 20th May 2018 at 12:35am on BBC1 Scot
  • Saturday 19th May 2018 at 11:55pm on BBC1